Re: [PATCH locking/atomic 18/19] locking/atomic: Refrain from generating duplicate fallback kernel-doc

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:17:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The gen-atomics.sh script currently generates 42 duplicate definitions:
> 
> 	arch_atomic64_add_negative
> 	arch_atomic64_add_negative_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_add_negative_release
> 	arch_atomic64_dec_return
> 	arch_atomic64_dec_return_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_dec_return_release
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_andnot
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_andnot_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_andnot_release
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_dec
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_dec_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_dec_release
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_inc
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_inc_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_fetch_inc_release
> 	arch_atomic64_inc_return
> 	arch_atomic64_inc_return_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_inc_return_release
> 	arch_atomic64_try_cmpxchg
> 	arch_atomic64_try_cmpxchg_acquire
> 	arch_atomic64_try_cmpxchg_release
> 	arch_atomic_add_negative
> 	arch_atomic_add_negative_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_add_negative_release
> 	arch_atomic_dec_return
> 	arch_atomic_dec_return_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_dec_return_release
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_andnot
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_andnot_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_andnot_release
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_dec
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_dec_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_dec_release
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_inc
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_inc_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_fetch_inc_release
> 	arch_atomic_inc_return
> 	arch_atomic_inc_return_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_inc_return_release
> 	arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg
> 	arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire
> 	arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg_release
> 
> These duplicates are presumably to handle different architectures
> generating hand-coded definitions for different subsets of the atomic
> operations.  However, generating duplicate kernel-doc headers is
> undesirable.
> 
> Therefore, generate only the first kernel-doc definition in a group
> of duplicates.  A comment indicates the name of the function and the
> fallback script that generated it.

So my canonical solution to fixing kernel-doc related problems is this
trivial regex:

	s/\/\*\*/\/\*/

works every time.

And is *much* simpler than this:

>  scripts/atomic/chkdup.sh                     |  27 ++
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/acquire             |   3 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/add_negative        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/add_unless          |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/andnot              |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/dec                 |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/dec_and_test        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/dec_if_positive     |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/dec_unless_positive |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/fence               |   3 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/fetch_add_unless    |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/inc                 |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/inc_and_test        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/inc_not_zero        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/inc_unless_negative |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/read_acquire        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/release             |   3 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/set_release         |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/sub_and_test        |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/fallbacks/try_cmpxchg         |   5 +
>  scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh                |   4 +